Make a counting rope
A great activity to practice fine motor skills and tool use ending up with an outdoor maths abacus.
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Our Top 5 Outdoor Maths Activities in conjunction with Maths Week Scotland
Our Top 5 outdoor maths activities
We are passionate about the outdoors so we've chosen to share our top 5 favourite outdoor maths activities for this year's Maths Week Scotland - with the theme of Wild Maths!
Bringing nature and numbers together, the theme of Wild Maths could get you exploring plants and wildlife, weather and natural forces, astronomy, outdoor learning, and more.
Our Top 5 Outdoor Maths Activities all feature natural materials and are perfect for developing those numeracy skills outside the classroom.
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5 little speckled frogs
Perfect outdoor early years maths resource that's fun to make and play.
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Make a 1 Sq m maths set
A simple activity exploring length in a hands-on way using natural resources.
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- Estimation - how many sticks in the pile?
- Create simple stick shapes
- Find some sticks & order them by length
5. String Maths
- Measure the girth of a tree
- Explore spirals
- Make a string compass
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INSPIRATIONS - outdoor maths
A collection of outdoor maths activities for the early years and primary age using natural materials.
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Maths Week Scotland
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